Lacing catch or hook.



.PATENTBD OCT. 23, 1906.

' c. F. BRANDT.

meme GATGH 0R HOOK.

APPLICATION FILED IEB. 13. 1906.

4 v ioehtop C no M0 same from becoming loose or untied.

I tion it is designed to use a lacing-hook 1,

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? UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES F. BRANDT, OF NEW CASTLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

LACING CATCH on HOOK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 23, 1906.

. Application filed February '13. 1906. Serial lie 300.891.

1'0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES F. BRANDT, a citizen of the United States,residing at N ew. Castle, in the county of Lawrence and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in LacingCatches or Hooks, of which-the following is a specification.

This invention consists of a novel form of lacing-catch for shoes,gloves, or the like, and adapted to form a positive means to engage theend portions of a lacing to prevent the For a full description of theinvention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of thedetails of construction of the means for effecting the result referenceis to be hadto the following description and accompanying drawings, inwhich- Figure 1 is a top plan view of a device embodying the invention,lacing detached. Fig. 2 is a top plan view, lacing in position. Fig. 3is a vertical cross-section.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the sameIn the practical embodiment of the invenwhich is of a form somewhatsimilar to those which are commonly applied to shoes, said hook beingformed of sheet metal and having small prongs or points 2 adapted topass through the leather or material to which the hook is applied tosecure the device thereto in the customary way. The base 1 of the hook1,'however, is bent upwardly near the mouth of the hook to form a sideportion 3, which partially closes the mouth of the member 1 and is ofpeculiar advantage, as will now be pointed out. The side portion 3 ofthe hook virtually constitutes a rib pressed upwardly from the basethereof and is curved in its length so as to cooperate with a catchmember 4, pivoted within or beneath the top 1 of the member 1. It ispreferred that the catch member 4 be provided in its upper and lowersides with depressions in: which pivot-lugs 5, pressed from the resective top and basal portions of the hoo 1, are received to afford thedesired pivotal the ends of the lacing the mounting of the catch memberaforesaid.

The catch member 4 is formed near its outermost edge with a .curvedcam-surface 6, which is preferably roughened and which is locatedadjacent to the side 3 of the hook. The lacing shown at 7 is adapted toenter the mouth of the hook and to be disposed between the side 3 andthe cam-surface 6 of the catch member 4, the natural tendency of thelacing when under strain being such as to positlvely cause thecam-surface 6 to engage therewith, whereby it will be clampedbetween'this surface and the side portion 3 and prevented from becomingloose.

The hooks 1 will be located, preferably, at the top portions of theupper of the shoe, and two of these hooks, with the catch members 4.,will be sufficient to prevent the lacing from becoming loose, in amanner which will be evident, the strain on the'lacing not beingreceived'by the knot which may be tied, but by the cam members 4. Bypulling up on catch member 4 will be moved so as to readily release saidends and permit the lacing to be loosed preparatory to the removal ofthe part to which it is applied."

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is 3 As anew article of manufacture, a lacinghook consisting of top and basalportions, the basal portion being formed with prongs at its edgeportions to attach the same to a suitable part, a catch arranged betweenthe top and basal portions of the hook and provided with depressions inits upper and lower sides and having a curved roughened cam-surface, thetop and basal portions of the hook' being pressed to form pivot elements entering the depressions in. the catch to pivotally connect thelatter with the hook, the mouth of the hook being partially closed by anintegral rib pressed upwardly from the basal portion of said hook, saidrib being curved to conform with the curvature of the roughenedcam-surface of the catch.

In testimony. whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES F. BRANDT.

